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Removing P4 Retention

Anyone know of a guide or has removed a PIV retention clip off the motherboard? I'm considering getting a bolt-through heatsink, and was wondering if the push pins (I'm assuming plastic on my Abit BE7-G) can come out easily and be reused if needed?

I don't know of aguide, so I'll write you one!! They do come off fairly simply as long as you're careful.

Take the board out of the case & flip it over, I use a normal flat head screwdriver. Hold the screwdriver all the way down by the head, NOT UP BY THE HANDLE. Turn the flat head so you're looking at the edge & use it to push the center, usually gray, pins out through the front of the board. Once all 4 are out, then just squeeze the remaining, usually black, clips on the bottom of the bracket & push them through the board. Voila!! Be careful & take your time because we don't want that screwdriver to slip off & gouge the mobo possibly ruining it. And yes you can easily reattach it.

I prefer pulling the gray pins out. There are little notches in the black plastic near the heads of the gray pins. You can stick a small screw driver in the notch and pry the head of the pin up. Then you just pull it out.

I take a flathead screwdriver, pull up the 4 black pins just enough so aftewards, i can take a needlenose plier (however you spell it), and pry out the 4 pins all the way. Then i just snap out the whole retention plate. Pretty easy.

Pry the 4 little pegs off very slowly and carefully with a flat balded utility knife (pull with fingers/pliers at end so they dont fly all over the place) and pull the black carriage out of the board by pushing the pins together in the back (like a Radeon HSF) and pulling it out.